Improvement in shoe-fasteners



V. NIVOIS., SHOE-FASTENERS.

No. 195,770. Patented 0ct.Z,1877.

ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, PNOTO-LITNOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VICTOR NIVOIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,770, dated October 2, 1877; application filed To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, VICTOR N IVOIS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Shoe-Fastener, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shoe having my improved fastener attached. Fig. 2 is a detail view of one of the hooks. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the fastener, taken on line as x in Figs. 1, 2, and 4:. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the corrugated wire forming a part of the fastener. Fig. 5 is a modification of the same, and Fig. 6 is a transverse section on line y y in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail view of the button.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple inexpensive fastener for the class of shoes commonly fastened with buttons.

In the drawing, A is the part of the fastener that is applied to the inner surface of the overlapping portion ofthe shoe. It consists of a single wire bent into a zigzag spring, and having formed in it at intervals loops B, which are bent backward or returned upon themselves, as elearly shown in Fig. 3. An eye, a,

' is formed in the lower end of the part A for receiving an eye, b, by which the lower end of the part Ais fastened to the shoe. When this portion of the fasteneris applied to a shoe it is placed between the lining and the upper, and the loopsB project through the lining to receive a hook, O, sewed to the upper of the shoe. This hook is formed fiomadoubled wire, the ends of which are bent forward and formed into eyes a, at the same time forming the loops August 18, 1877.

d. The thread used in attaching the hook to the shoe passes through the loop d and the eyes 0.

When the shoe is fastened the hook is prevented from tipping by the eyes a and loops d, which form a broad base and hold it firmly in its proper position. A modification of this device is represented in Fig. 6, which consists of a wire bent into a UJllfOIIIl zigzag spring, to which a loop, B, similar to the loop 13, is attached by bending its ends over the wire spring.

In Fig. 7 a stud or button, 6, is represented, which is attached to a perforated plate, f, which may be sewed to the shoe in place of the hook.

It is obvious that the wire may be bent into different forms of spring; also, that instead of beingformed into a zigzag spring, as described, it In ay be plain, excepting the loops'B therefore I do not confine myself to the particular forms herein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The single wire A, formed into a zigzag spring, and provided with loops B and eyes a b, constructed and arranged as and for the purpose described.

2. The hook C, of forwardly-bent doubled wire, having eyes 0 and loops d, as and for the purpose specified.

VICTOR NIVOIS.

Witnesses:

GEO. M. HOPKINS, J. H. SCARBOROUGH. 

